PASS Summit 2011 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations from the 2011 PASS Summit have been entered, calculated, and officially released to speakers. While I didn't make...
2011-12-15
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Blog Posts
PowerPivot Data Connection Error
PowerPivot report returns the following error from Excel Services:
The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be...
2011-12-15
1,316 reads
SQL Saturday 99 – SSWUG Interview
Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – Holiday Gifts
Tis the Season
It is the season for TSQL Tuesday. More importantly it is the season for giving and reflection. And...
2011-12-15 (first published: 2011-12-13)
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Why Did You Start Blogging?
That’s easy, because Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) challenged me to……
Finding time to keep up with awesome blog content can be tough....
2011-12-15
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Why I Blog – #Meme15
A fellow blogger and SQL guy, Jason Strate (@stratesql) started a meme on Social Networking as a result of a...
2011-12-15
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
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#SQLLove for my Mentor
In 1986, my big brother Jim accidentally encouraged me on my road to geekdom by purchasing an Apple][e, and later...
2011-12-14
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Adam answers your questions on YouTube
Folks,
There are many outlet s to get information on this year’s SQL PASS board of directors candidates. Including :
SQLPASS Election...
2011-12-14
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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